Device for printing hand-composed odd type



Feb. l5, 1938. F. J. WEBER 2,108,357

A DEVICE FOR PRINTING HAND COMPOSED ODD TYPE Filed July 2o, 193e Patented Feb. 15, 1938 UNITED STATES DEVICE Fon PRINTING HAND-COMPOSE ODD T YPE Fritz Julius Weber, Winterthur, Switzerland, as-

signor to firm Schweizerische Lokomotiv- & Maschinenfabrik, Winterthur, Switzerland Application July 20, 1936, Serial No. 91,598 In Switzerland August 2, 1935 3- Claims.

The present invention relates to odd type printing devices for type line setting and printing machines having circulating patrices or counter-dies. In machines of this kind the patrices are as a rule conducted through a funnel to a collecting channel, then united into a line, inked in, printed and restored into the magazines. Experience has shown that in the use of such machines the characters which are contained in the magazines as circulating patrices are suflicient for normal composing work. The provision of magazines with circulating patrices for large headings, fancy type, algebraic formulas, very small type for the heads of schedules and so on, is, however, uneconomical as these type are seldom used.

The present invention has for its object to render possible the printing of type lines composed by hand and interposed in the lines set up with the circulating patrices. The device forming the subject matter of the present invention comprises a holder tting into the collecting channel of the machine and serving for the reception of the composed and closed type line composed by hand and further comprises guide means for the type line composed by hand in the printing position. Preferably the holder is so constructed that it can be brought into the printing position by the same means as the circulating patrices. The guide means for the type lines in the printing position are adjustable to be wider and narrower to correspond to the size of the letters used, so that also a plurality of type lines composed by hand may simultaneously be printed. It is further also possible to adjust the guide means so far that they do not act as guidance to the type directly but to the holder and thereby indirectly to the type. 'Ihe removal of the holder together with the type composed by hand out of the collecting channel may be eiected by the same means which remove the circulating patrices. 'I'he holder of the lines is preferably provided with adjustable lateral pieces which permit the composing of short lines necessitating a small amount of justiers or spacing material.

A constructional example of the device according to the invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 shows the holder for the type composed by hand provided with adjustable side pieces;

Fig. 2 shows in cross-section the arrangement of a circulating patrice in the printing position;

Fig. 3 shows in a cross section the arrangement of the holder for the types composed by hand in the collecting channel with a guided type line in the printing position;

Fig. 4 shows in a cross-section the arrangement according to Fig. 3 but with the guided holder in the printing position; and

Fig. 5 shows the arrangement of the holder and of the guide means in the type line setting and printing machine the section line A-A illustrating the line on which the views of Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are taken.

The holder I which fits with its side faces I a and Ib exactly into the collecting channel 2 is provided at regular intervals with recesses, into which the side pieces 3 are inserted according to the length of the type line composed by hand. The type 4 composed by hand are held in lines in the holder I by means of ller and spacing members 5 and the holder I is then inserted into the collecting channel 2 as is shown in chain dotted lines in Fig. 5. The two hooks 1a and 'Ib of the closing device 1 grip the holder I at its two ends at the beginning of the printing operation and move it in the direction indicated by an arrow in Fig. 5 along the collecting channel 2 into the printing position, in which the guide rails 8a and 8h guide the type line 4 composed by hand either in the manner shown in Fig. 3 or in which the guide rails 8a and 8b serve as guidance to the holder I as is illustrated in Fig. 4. In order to adapt the guide rails to the different widths of line and holder they are adjustable by means of screws 9. After the line has been printed the holder I is moved further in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 5 out of the collecting channel 2 in the same manner as the circulating patrices I which have been united into a line.

I claim:

1. In a device for odd type printing in a type line setting and printing machine, a collecting channel of normal size for the normal circulating patrices, a holder serving to support type lines composed of odd patrices of the ordinary kind of letterpress printing type, said holder tting into said circulating channel, and adjustable guide means for said type lines in the printing position.

2. In a device for printing odd type lines composed by hand in a type line setting and printing machine, comprising a collecting channel for the circulating patrices, a holder serving to receive the composed and closed type lines composed by hand and iitting into said circulating channel, and adjustable guide rails acting as guide means for the types composed by hand or for the holder.

3. In a device for printing odd type lines composed by hand in a type line setting and printing machine, comprising a collecting channel for the circulating patrices, a holder serving to receive the composed and closed type lines composed by hand and. fitting into said circulating channel, adjustable guide rails acting as guide means for the type composed by hand r for the holder, and means adapted to move the holder and the circulating patrices through the collecting channel.

FRITZ JULIUS WEBER. 

